LeBron went on to call out Ibrahimovic's hypocrisy considering comments that he has made about racism in the past. "It's funny he said that, because I believe in 2018 he was the same guy who said when he was back in Sweden, he was talking about the same things because his last name wasn't a certain last name, he felt like there was racism going on when he was out on the pitch. NBA champion James says he will not stop talking about ‘things that are wrong’ after criticism from Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Mere hours after LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, one held for decades by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two-part documentary Bill Russell: Legend debuted on Netflix. He can just ask Renee Montgomery if I would have shut up and just dribbled, just seeing that beautiful Black woman today be part of a group - she’s part of the ownership group with the Atlanta Dream.ĪLSO READ: Bronny James Injury Update: LeBron James’ Son Suffers Potential Season-ending Knee Injury LeBron James hits back at Zlatan in athlete activism spat. There’s no way I would ever just stick to sports, because I understand this platform and how powerful my voice is. “I’m kind of the wrong guy to actually go at because I do my homework.” /VyKgBrYuiz Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James on Friday fired back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic and vowed to never stay silent about social causes after he was criticized by the AC Milan forward for. LeBron responded after Zlatan Ibrahimovic criticized him for his activism. I know what's going on still because I have a group of 300-plus kids at my school that are going through the same thing and they need a voice." I preach about my people and I preach about inequality, social injustice, racism, systematic voter suppression, things that go on in our community because I was part of my community at one point and seeing things that are going on. In a lengthy response, while speaking to reporters, LeBron also pointed out his causes which help the underprivileged, saying, "At the end of the day, I would never shut up about things that are wrong. LeBron, however, waited until Friday night, after the Lakers' 102-93 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, to respond to the AC Milan attacker.ĪLSO READ: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Takes Dig At NBA Star LeBron James, Asks Him To Stay Out Of Politics Zlatan was referring to LeBron's longtime activism on racial justice issues and his public criticism of the USA's 45th president, Donald Trump. The comments by Ibrahimovic, whose two-year spell with LA Galaxy overlapped with James’ time in Los Angeles, didn't go down well with the 17-time NBA All-Star. Zlatan Ibrahimovic says LeBron James and other high profile athletes should simply stick to sports. ![]() ‘I don’t like when people, when they have some kind of status, and they do politics at the same time as what they are doing.’
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